This website’s top posts so far this month

Out of curiosity just now, I did something I rarely do: check the stats on this website for the top posts so far this month. And I did so because I had the strangest feeling that the pictures of Joseph Muscat queuing up at the Burger King till in Rome at 1am with Glenn Bedingfield would come out on top.

It was one of those self-flagellating moments – you know, when you wonder what it’s all for and why you bust a gut writing post after post about hyper-scandals with all the details, only to find that people are way more interested in a picture of the Prime Minister’s pate from the rear at the Burger King till.

I was right, but also wrong – it did come out at the top, but in second place, having been narrowly pipped to the post by this piece in which I broke the news that the Prime Minister’s chief of staff has yet another secret offshore company, in Gibraltar.

The Burger King post was shared via this website 7,652 times on Facebook while the Gibraltar post was shared 7,855 times. The backroom stats tell me that each post was read 30,000 times.

Now perhaps some sociologist/anthropologist/whatever would like to dissect and deconstruct what people found so fascinating about those Burger King pictures. My own instinctive understanding is that it’s because it conflicts completely with the image portrayed back home.